Evgenij Franzevich Vitácek

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Evgenij (Yevgeny) Vitácek trained with F. Spidlen in Kiev from 1895. He moved to Moscow 1898 and in 1918 was ask to found the Russian School for Violin Making in the city. He became luthier to the Moscow Conservatoire and keeper of the Russian State Instrument Collection, which during the Russian Revolution of 1917 he was in charge of moving to Moscow for safe keeping.

Vitácek made over ...Read More 400 instruments during his career, which won awards in the All-Russian Competition of of String Instruments in 1913 and 1926. His notes on Russian and other violin makers were published as 'Essays on the History of Bowed-Instrument Making' in 1952 by E. Bumarek.

Label: 'Evgenius Vitachek Pragensis / faciebat Moscovie 1930' Read Less

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